Taipei Community Life Support Center: Paving the way to a new and better life for the physically and mentally challenged with "heart".
Decades ago, parents with mentally handicapped children not only did not have the support of early therapeutic education, but also did not dare to think about their children's future as adults. Even when they had to queue up for the chance to receive national compulsory education in elementary school, and when they repeatedly went to various schools and found that their children had been abandoned by the national education system, they could not help but think whether such an environment was fair to their children.
This group of parents of mentally challenged children decided to come forward, not only to fight for their own children's rights, but also to open up a path for other children and families in the same situation. They shed their ordinary identities as housewives, civil servants or office workers, and learned to publish publications, submit books, organize parent groups, and even hold up banners to present their case in the Legislative Yuan.
In 1976, the Reality Check Foundation was established as the first self-sustaining organization in Taiwan founded by parents of the mentally and physically challenged, and the members of the Board of Directors of Reality Check are still mainly parents.
Starting with one phone and one staff member, we have grown to a team of more than 500 staff members serving 6,000 people with mental disabilities each year. Starting from a community home that provided residential services for adults with mental disabilities, we now have a full range of professional support such as early therapeutic care for people aged 0-6 years old, vocational rehabilitation for people aged 18 years old and above, daytime care, nighttime accommodations, community support services, and elderly care services. Taiwan's mentally handicapped and their families to provide excellent service quality, this road has the tears of parents, but also the selfless love of many people.
The Taipei Community Living Support Center is committed to building a "normalized" and "inclusive" community life, with the goal of self-reliant living, learning self-selection, self-responsibility, and building self-confidence.
The community support service launched in 2011 focuses on interpersonal interaction, life skills and rights, interests and dreams, expression and social participation.
It also strengthens the connection between people with intellectual disabilities and the community in a natural environment, and promotes mutual understanding, acceptance and respect.
Intellectual disability, Down's syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy, and other multiple disabilities with intellectual disability over the age of 15.
Daytime activities: Normalized learning and life training for interpersonal interaction, self-reliance, health promotion, and leisure planning.
(b) Community Inclusion Courses: To organize cultural and art courses and invite the community to learn together, so as to promote understanding, respect and acceptance of the handicapped and to become an informal supportive force in the community.
Club activities: Drum Corps, Choir, Basketball Club, clubs have opportunities for outside performances or competitions to build self-confidence.
Community living: Individualized support for people with intellectual disabilities to live in the community, learn self-care skills and move towards self-reliance.
Individualization/family support: Practicing individual wishes; providing family care, supportive groups/classes/caregiver coffee stations.
Volunteer Management and Utilization: To recruit, manage and utilize volunteers to provide professional services and to train people with disabilities to participate in volunteer services and to contribute to the community.
Youth clubs are open to the public: there are computers, board games, karaoke, newspapers and magazines, sports equipment and other facilities and equipment in the clubs, which can be registered and used independently to enhance interpersonal interaction.
Monday to Saturday
8:30 a.m. - 17:00 p.m.
The actual situation is based on the map enquiry route.
I. Buses
Man Fong Kwok Elementary School Station: 606, 0 South, Brown 2, Brown 6
MRT
Man Wu Line - Man Fong Neighborhood Station: about 10 minutes walk
Wenhu Line - Man Fong Hospital Station: Take bus 606, 0 South, Brown 6, Brown 2 to Man Fong Elementary School Station.
III. Self-driving
Get off the Wanfang Interchange at State 3A, turn right along Muzha Rd. Sec. 4 to Heping E. Rd. Sec. 4, turn left to Wanmei St., and turn left at Wanhe St.
Heart Road Social Welfare Foundation
Tel: (02) 25929778
Fax: (02) 25928514
Mailbox: syinlu@syinlu.org.tw
Address: (104) 4F, No. 364, Jilin Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei City, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact the Heart Road Social Welfare Foundation or Sunyu Academy.
Source:
Pathways to the Heart Foundation
Heartland Taipei Community Life Support Center FB Page
Image Source:
Pathways to the Heart Foundation
Pathways to the Heart Foundation
Heartland Taipei Community Life Support Center
